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by tonto 3y ago
at a certain point it would probably help to meaningfully downsample/summarize the data at the larger scales..."semantic zooming"...then you just aren't plotting as many points
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by tonto 3y ago
agree that using the API is likely the nicer route. you can also apply for a quota increase, I recently applied for youtube API quota increase to 100,000 units and it was approved for my app ( https://cmdcolin.github.io/ytshu
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by tonto 3y ago
got a "RequestError: certificate has expired" doing a release just now...as usual, not a good idea to release on a friday
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by tonto 4y ago
see also: the noise/experimental music label (iatrogenesis tapes), created by brother of "casiotone for the painfully alone"
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by tonto 4y ago
typescriptifying some legacy code is a similar idle brain task that i've sometimes done
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by tonto 4y ago
I always like this when the url is always copyable, but in our app, the state can get quite large. We started with base64 encoded gzip of json.stringified app state but just gets quite long. Arguably it could be reduced a little bit, but wo
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by tonto 4y ago
HTML5 canvases are probably subject to different rules. I have definitely run into canvas limits also. this stackoverflow from 2014 shows some limits https://stackoverflow.com/a/11585939/2129219 (looks updated in
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by tonto 4y ago
I remember my neighbors dad showing us this on their compaq pc. I can't remember exactly what year it was I would guess it was probably <2004. I think it had a cool 3d visualizer thing with lots of polys but not google earth
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by tonto 4y ago
Now if only other programs would agree (e.g. web browser)
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by tonto 4y ago
offtopic but didn't know wiki allowed slashes in article titles
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A Grid for the File Chooser(blog.gtk.org)
1 points by tonto 4y ago|0 comments
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by tonto 4y ago
this is a random note since I know OP didn't mention RSI, but since you did, I will mention: gotta watch out for putting too much pressure on your elbows with armrests and such. I found this can cause trouble with your pinky finger (so
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by tonto 4y ago
really like the ability to cite sources, great effort
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by tonto 4y ago
Just a random note but LSP (language server protocol) support in e.g. vim/neovim allows IDE-like features in a "plain old text editor"
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Typos-CLI – Source code spell checker(github.com)
3 points by tonto 4y ago|1 comments
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by tonto 4y ago
I am not the author of this tool but found it extremely useful. It has caught almost a 100 typos in our codebase in snake_cased and camelCased variable names, in prose in our docs, and it is programming-language agnostic! So awesome. Highly
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by tonto 4y ago
look forward to having standardized e.g. "figure captions", looks like it's being worked out here https://github.com/jgm/djot/issues/28 pandoc is interesting because with markdown it currently
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by tonto 4y ago
TIL Aaron Schwartz had at least some role in creating markdown also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber#History
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by tonto 4y ago
sounds like ya might want a computational egyptologist
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by tonto 4y ago
"Software engineering at Google" (O'Reilley) has a lot of "team focused" advice also, it's overall pretty non-technical but generally a good read. Free to read online too https://abseil.io/resou
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by tonto 4y ago
congrats for kos
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by tonto 4y ago
so your users every click is monitored by you? is that what you mean by observability? rather not do that to my users
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by tonto 4y ago
the repeated notifixation message from snapd that i need to close the app is really bad IMO...and e.g.closing firefox does not make the message go away(??), its very confusing
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by tonto 4y ago
this is a an important article. It's a bit hard to grok and requires some experience to understand but after you end up with a messy system doing too much ghosty stuff you yearn for stability
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by tonto 4y ago
this is where the wiki "markup" really nails it, so easy to crosslink documents
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by tonto 4y ago
reminds me of a bug bounty type post :) would be nice to get awarded similarly
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by tonto 4y ago
any tools to help analyze this type of thing (e.g. what is and is not optimal for the jit)? have heard the term deopt but not sure how to get visibility into that
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by tonto 4y ago
that's too bad...I buy beyond burgers because the pea protein in beyond burger is good to me. I can't eat others like impossible burgers which use soy protein (cross sensitivity to soy from peanut allergy)
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by tonto 4y ago
I think its more that eslint at its core does not support typescript and they want to run the eslint tool theyre developing over the eslint codebase. It's hard to argue with this but it doesnt seem like the greatest outcome
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by tonto 4y ago
i'm now reminded of https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/18093757-Fuckin-Concre...

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